Author Topic: Undocumented windows errors. (Read 1285 times)

Righteousbro · « **on:** June 26, 2010, 03:01:57 PM »

Found this in a joke newsletter

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*WinErr: 001 Windows loaded - System in danger

*WinErr: 002 No Error - Yet

*WinErr: 003 Dynamic linking error - Your mistake is now in every file

*WinErr: 004 Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong

*WinErr: 005 Multitasking attempted - System confused

*WinErr: 006 Malicious error - Disk view found on drive

*WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware

*WinErr: 008 Broken window - Watch out for glass fragments

*WinErr: 009 Horrible bug encountered - No one knows what has happened

*WinErr: 00A Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full

*WinErr: 00B Inadequate disk space - Free at least 500MB

*WinErr: 00C Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More! More! More!

*WinErr: 00D Window closed - Do not look outside

*WinErr: 00E Window open - Do not look inside

*WinErr: 00F Unexplained error - Please tell us how this happened

*WinErr: 010 Reserved for future mistakes by our developers

*WinErr: 011 Window open - Do not look outside

*WinErr: 012 Window closed - Do not look inside

*WinErr: 013 Unexpected error - Huh ?

*WinErr: 014 Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of.

*WinErr: 018 Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed.

Buy a new one. Old windows licence is not valid anymore.

*WinErr: 019 User error - Not our fault. Is Not! Is Not!

*WinErr: 01A Operating system overwritten - Please reinstall all your software. We are terribly sorry.

*WinErr: 01B Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error. Next time you will get a penalty for that

*WinErr: 01C Uncertainty error - Uncertainty may be inadequate.

*WinErr: 01D System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code.

*WinErr: 01E Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.

*WinErr: 01F Reserved for future mistakes of our developers

*WinErr: 020 Error recording error codes - Remaining errors will be lost.

*WinErr: 042 Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos- box. The virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will automatically be closed and the virus will be activated again.

*WinErr: 079 Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed. Please click the left mouse button to continue.

*WinErr: 103 Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered. Next errors will not be displayed or recorded.

*WinErr: 678 This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play another game?

*WinErr: 683 Time out error - Operator fell asleep while waiting for the system to complete boot procedure

*WinErr: 815 Insufficient Memory - Only 580,312,583 Bytes available

flames · « **Reply #1 on:** June 28, 2010, 07:09:21 PM »

Ah, Windows errors...amusing the masses on the information superhighway (...and usenet) since the mid 90's.
I think getting a dialog box during a BSOD stating that bluescreen has encountered an error would be amusing in real life, even though I'm pretty sure that it's not possible as a BSOD switches to a text-framebuffer style display and is thus incapable of using standard dialogs. Ah well.

Error 001, 004, 005, 007, 013, 01B and 01D all struck me as particularly funny although 079 is basically a rehash of an existing joke (Keyboard not found, press F2 to continue) but with the mouse instead of keyboard.